Posted on 04/13/2020 11:00:27 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
A Florida police chief was placed on paid leave for allegedly suggesting that a sheriff’s deputy died from the coronavirus because he was gay, according to reports.
Davie Police Chief Dale Engle, 56, was put on leave as of Saturday “pending further review” of accusations made a day earlier by the state’s Fraternal Order of Police, the town announced in a statement.
A Florida police chief was placed on paid leave for allegedly suggesting that a sheriff’s deputy died from the coronavirus because he was gay, according to reports.
Davie Police Chief Dale Engle, 56, was put on leave as of Saturday “pending further review” of accusations made a day earlier by the state’s Fraternal Order of Police, the town announced in a statement.
In a letter sent to town officials, Mike Tucker, the chief of staff for Florida’s Fraternal Order of Police, alleged that several cops who expressed concerns of exposure to COVID-19 were “belittled” by Engle during a Tuesday patrol briefing just four days after the coronavirus death of 39-year-old Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Shannon Bennett.
Engle proceeded to take the officers to a parking lot, where he yelled at them about their “baseless” concerns, Tucker wrote in the letter, which was obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Bennett’s partner, Jonathan Frey, told WPLG the pair were set to get hitched in December.
“The chief’s alleged comments are completely false, homophobic and slanderous,” Frey told the station in a statement. “I look forward to the fair and impartial investigation initiated by the town manager, and I hope that appropriate action will be taken at its conclusion.”
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homos are sick anyway, mentally and physically.
Even though the world is on lock-down, tens of millions of Americans are suddenly unemployed, the economy has dropped by 20% and the world financial system is teetering on collapse - its nice to know we still are pursuing the most important things - rumored insults against homosexuals.
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The chief should have known better. It’s not possible to become infected at “Pride” events, mosques, nor at abortion clinics.
The danger is at churches, deserted beaches, and the seed aisles of Walmarts.
Chief is right. It’s all about individual immune systems.
Most cops are overweight, too many donuts.
Uh-huh. So. Did they dutifully investigate to find out if the statement was true? Maybe the chief has identified a vulnerable population that needs outreach and specific treatment, analogous to the elderly.
Bureaucrats are so afraid of backlash from the comment that they don't care about helping that population group. Someone should organize a group of gays in support of the police chief.
Those of us with compromised immune systems have a hard time. A medical fact.
An inconvenient truth.
Back when AIDS was starting, anyone suggesting they close the bathhouses would have been labelled “homophobic”.
Do gerbils carry coronavirus?
A lot of Florida’s early cases came from a ‘days long’ gay function in Miami.
Why yes. Fron bat to gerbil to rectum.
I recall a couple weeks ago a gay rights group demanding heightened attention to the LBGT crowd because the group said they were particularly vulnerable to the virus.
No, he said him going to gay gatherings held in spite of social distancing got him the disease.
Cootie fruity.
oh rudy... A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!
What can I say that hasn’t already been said. Homosexuals today pedophiles tomorrow.
There was no need for anyone in his department to speculate about the cause of death, but the relationship between virus deaths and hiv needs serious unbiased investigation.
People say the dumbest things. It just rolls of the tongue. I think the mouth works faster then the brain.
Is he a doctor? Shut his big mouth and just say one of our own died of coronavirus and that’s it. Problem with everyone is they decide it’s cool to add commentary and prognosis they are not sure of.
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